St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-04


drawing in at every breath that which makes
him the hater of the institutions of the coun-
try that he lives in. Is not that true! How
can child reared amidst such influences,
reared In ignorance, reared i'll poverty, reared
i'll vice; how can that child respect its sur
roundings when it grows to manhood or wo-
manhood? lApplause] ask a plain ques-
tion and no one answers it. Then. IL II is
boy. when he grows TO manhood, il he should
be found committing violence or transgres-
sion against the laws of our country. who can
blame hims Is it because he knows that he is
doing wrong? No: it is through ignorance OF
our laws. And when say stop the agents of
the steamship companies; take home the
agent of the railway companies; stop import
ing your criminals here, and let no man or
woman land on this soil but who comes of
his or her own free will determined to make
home here amongst us. Let only these
| land, and no other. [Great applause.l Is
that saying anything against the foreigner?
on the emigrant question. l have been
called a crank on the temperance question,
and am. [Laughter.] And permit me to
say that the world is turned by crank
lRenewed laughter Everything that goes
| around has n crank attachment. [Laughter.1
| And if it has not got it it will stand still.
| NOW, AN NOT so MUCH OF A CRANK,
who works for a living should be a
| sober man and woman. Cries of Hear
| Hear. Is that wrong? [Cries of
No .No"l If there is anyone in.
| tiilo VIII DtllcNcS IL iS WTOIS LOT HE
to advocate temperance among the men and
| women of our order let him come on this
| platform now and guarantee him an audi
| ence here, and when he is done will speak
for you people here now that you will give
| him respectful hearing, when he is done if
do not lash his argument and himself until
| he is ashamed that he ever spoke one word in
behalf of whisky, then Twill give you my cloth
ing. Applause. He is not alive who can
stand up here and say that it is right for
man to get drunk. \ voice: That is right
You bet it is; there is not man living who
| will say it is right to bring into the home that
| which damnS the head Of the family, and
when draw the dividing line plainly before
our members say to them, OH this side is the
home; on that side. the saloon; and l say to
them plainly, your duty lies in the direction
of the home. | have been called crank and
have threatened to leave the order. A voice !:
Let them leave.] / say to all who would
like to leave the order for such a
cause, 60: lGreat applause.l I will trust
the fate of the American people i'll the hands
of sober men and women. and it rests upon
| our organization to build up a treasury with
money taken from the pockets of poor peo.
pie. rich people. or any other people II that
money comes from the sale of LIQUOR if it
comes from the sale of that which dams body
and soul, say our organization, to-day, had
such basis as that. Enthusiastic ap-
plause.l never knew it to do any good. j
never go into a mans house and take him by
the throat and say,
II.
l say 1t is wrong. give HIM my reasons
for 1t and then he can do as he pleaSes about
it. But shall never alter those reasons. Z
shall never take one word l have said in the
cause of temperance back SO long as God
gives me life to say ii. Great applause.) }
| Tonight we are on the eve of convention
of our order. Until a short time ago it was
supposed nat only the men who work down
| i'll the earth, on the railway Or in the work
shop, had place in our organization.
1t is broader and wider than that for
it takes in the man who does! duty here for
the daily papers. 1t takes in the man sitting
at his desk as clerk 1t takes in the man
who afar off on the prairie breaks the sod
for the coming grain, ana 1t brings them to-
gether i'll an organization that, teaches them
that the interests OF all are identical. Sowe
have opened up our order, in fact it always
was open, TO the farmers of the land. And
the day is not far distant when, whether itbe
under the name of the knights of Labor
or some other name the people of this coun-
try, the farmers, the farm-wOrking men, the
mineworking men. and the mechanics gen-
orally throughout This land will be enrolled
as one man for the good of their country.
Enthusiastic applause. All the power that
eau be brought to bear to keep them apart
| WILL EE IN VAIN
That cannot be done. / was in the state of
Nebraska not long since and had to drive
some twelve miles away from the railway to
see friend of mine, and as was about to
leave his place / saw pile of corn cobs
what are You saving the corn cobs for?''
"Why, you greenhorn." he says, ''that. is
my coal Laughter Says 1: "Do
e"rn emTn ons with es brn
We have, to pay from $40 to $12 per ton for
your anthracite coal out here" went home
/ took one of the corncobs with me as a sam
pie of the Goa lthey nse in Nebraska 1
the coal they use in Nebraska. because they
have to, pay S12 per tom Who gets the
coal, is the question the MINER mechanic and
farmer expects to ask.
When came into your city this morning 1
saw in one of your papers the line ''Tom
| Armstrong, the editor of the Pittsburg Ma
tional Labor Tribune, is dead" have heard
his voice ring out against wrong and impris-
Onment CT miners in his state. The paper
tells me that the sr,nl of Thomas Armstrong
has gone to heaven to receive its reward for
the goo good he did the poor and oppressed, and
L said to myself, may he receive his
crown he earned on earth. Let US send from
this assemblage to that stricken. home in
Allegheny county the sympathy of the people
you read our declaration of principles, and
then if every one will do his part as true
Knight, he can go to meet his God knowing
he has left the world better for having lived
n it.
THE ARMSTRONG RESOLUTIONS.
The speaker closed amid cheering,
and the following resolutions were
read and adopted:
Resolved, That this meeting learns with a
deep sense of regret of the death of Thomas
A. Armstrong, editor of the National Labor
Tribune, of Pittsburg, Pa, whose name for
upwards of twenty-five years has been a
household word wherever a labor organ
1Zation was in existence and during
all those years by life of strict temperance
habits and pure business methods, he was
one of the few men who had survived the
shaft OF ridicule, suspicion, abuse and ma
lignait accusations that il has been the wont
of Iir,ty
minds of the labor movement.
Resolved, That in his death the country
loses good citizen and the laboring classes
| a steadfast champion.
Prof. Mons Baker then sang in clear
stentorian voice 1.-The Workman's Mar
sellaise,' the audience joining in sing
| ing America.
SENATOR A. j. sTREETER,
president of the National Farmers al
lance, was cordially received. He
spoke for nearly an hour, delivering a
most powerful speech in behalf the
farmers ever listened to. He was very
humorous and apt in his illustrations
and the audience fairly shrieked with
laughter and delight at the way he
millerS in particular. The old farmer
in him was fully aroused and he spoke
as earnestly in behalf of their wrongs
as did POwderly for the workingmen
He started out by showing that in the great
agricultural state of Illinois the farmers are
sinking in debt two-thirds of the farms
mortgaged so the principal and interest can
never be paid. He showed by the
official report of the secretary of agricul-
ture that corn has been grown at
a loss. In 1881 the loss was S12, 735.7 II; i'll
'93 the loss was SS,621, 400: 1884. S1l. 1885,
554: 1885, $40, 800, ,7O1; 1886, $40, 700 2O9;
total loss in five years. So, ,52S. In 1884
according to agricultural reports, every crop
of grain was grown at a loss except potatoes
hay and rye. Is it better in other places Last
year went through the state of blooming
Kansas and learned that 95 per cent. of the
farms were mortgaged and many for all they